List Of Bharat Ratna Award Winners Over 1954-2024

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The Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in the country.

Here's a complete list of Bharat Ratna awardees till date.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (philosopher, politician and former President of India) - 1954

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (physicist)- 1954

Chakaravarti Rajagopalachari (statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activist) - 1954

Bhagwan Das (Independence activist, philosopher, and educationist)- 1955

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore) - 1955

Govind Ballabh Pant (Independence activist) - 1957

Dhondo Keshav Karve (Social reformer and educator)- 1958

Jawaharlal Nehru (Independence activist, author and former Prime Minister of India)- 1955

Bidhan Chandra Roy (physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker)- 1961

Purushottam Das Tandon (Independence activist) - 1961

Zakir Husain (Independence activist)- 1963

Pandurang Vaman Kane (Indologist and Sanskrit scholar) -1963

Rajendra Prasad (Independence activist, lawyer, statesman, scholar and former President of India)- 1962

Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) (Independence activist and former Prime Minister of India) - 1966

Indira Gandhi (politician and former Prime Minister of India) -1971

Kumaraswamy Kamraj (Posthumous) (politician and former Tamil Nadu chief minister) 1976

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (founder of the Missionaries of Charity) - 1980

Varahagiri Venkata Giri (Independence activist and former Prseident of India) -1975

Vinoba Bhave (Posthumous) (Independence activist, social reformer) -1983

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Independence activist) -1987

Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) (Social reformer) -1990

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (anti-apartheid activist) - 1990

Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous) (actor turned politician) -1988

Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (politician and former Prime Minister of India) -1991

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (Independence activist) - 1991

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) (Independence activist) -1992

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (Industrialist) - 1992

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (Independence activist and Prime Minister of India) - 1991

Satyajit Ray (Filmmaker) - 1992

Gulzari Lal Nanda (Independence activist) - 1997

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Aerospace, defence scientist and former President of India) -1997

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (Carnatic classical vocalist) -1998

Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) (Independence activist) - 1997

Chidambaram Subramaniam (Independence activist) - 1998

Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (Independence activist, social reformer) - 1999

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (Independence activist) - 1999

Ravi Shankar (sitar player) - 1999

Amartya Sen (economist) - 1999

Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (playback singer) - 2001

Ustad Bismillah Khan (Hindustani classical shehnai player) - 2001

C. N. R. Rao (chemist and professor) - 2014

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (cricketer) - 2014

Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (Hindustani classical vocalist) - 2009

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (politician and former Prime Minister of India) 2015

Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous) (Scholar and educational reformer) - 2015

Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika (Posthumous) (playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, and film-maker) - 2019

Pranab Mukherjee (politician and former President of India) 2019

Nanaji Deshmukh (Posthumous) (social activist) - 2019

Karpoori Thakur (Posthumous) (politician and former Bihar chief minister) - 2024

Lal Krishna Advani (politician and former deputy prime minister)- 2024

Chaudhary Charan Singh (Former prime minister) - 2024

LDr. MS Swaminathan (Father of the Green Revolution) - 2024

PV Narasimha Rao (Former prime minister) - 2024